An animated infographic depicting China’s territorial disputes. Is China trying to expand its territory?
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.trib.al/rWl91R7
ONE reason China’s spectacular rise sometimes alarms its neighbours is that it is not a status quo power. From its inland, western borders to its eastern and southern seaboard, it claims territory it does not control.
In the west, China’s border dispute with India is more than a minor cartographic tiff. China claims an area of India that is three times the size of Switzerland, the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further west, China occupies Indian claimed territory next to Ladakh in Kashmir, an area called the Aksai Chin. China humiliated India in a brief, bloody war over the dispute in 1962. Since 1988, the two countries have put the dispute on the backburner and got on with developing commercial ties, despite occasional flare-ups.
More immediately dangerous is the stand-off between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu in Chinese.
Japan says they have always been its territory and admits no dispute, claiming also that China only started expressing an interest when it began to seem the area might be rich in oil and gas.
A new and much more dangerous phase of the dispute began in 2012 after Japan’s government nationalised three of the islands by buying them from their private owner.
China accused Japan of breaking an understanding not to change the islands’ status. Ever since, it has been challenging not just Japan’s claim to sovereignty over the islands, but its claim to control them, sending Chinese ships and planes to patrol them.
Raising the stakes is Japan’s alliance with America, which says that though it takes no position on who owns the islands, they are covered by its defence treaty with Japan, since it administers them.
Especially provocative to America and Japan was China’s unilateral announcement in November 2013 of an Air-defenceIdentificationZone, covering the islands.
The worry is less that big powers will deliberately go to war over these desolate little rocks, but that an accidental collision at sea or in the air might escalate unforeseeably.
Similar fears cloud disputes in the South China Sea, where the maritime claims in South-East Asia are even more complex, and, again, competition is made more intense by speculation about vast potential wealth in hydrocarbon resources.
Vietnam was incensed in May 2014 when China moved a massive oil-rig to drill for two months in what it claimed as its waters.
This was near the Paracel Islands, controlled by China since it evicted the former South Vietnamese from them in 1974.
To the south, China and Vietnam also claim the Spratly archipelago, as does Taiwan, whose claim in the sea mirrors China’s. But the Philippines also has a substantial claim. Malaysia and even tiny Brunei also have an interest.
But it is with Vietnam and the Philippines that China’s disputes are most active. The Philippines accuses China of salami-slicing tactics, stealthily expanding its presence in disputed waters. In 1995 it evicted the Philippines from Mischief Reef, and in 2012 from Scarborough Shoal.
This year it has tried to stop the Philippines from resupplying a small garrison it maintains on the Second Thomas Shoal, and appears to be building an airstrip on the Johnson South Reef.
The United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea—UNCLOS—is one forum for tackling these disputes. But UNCLOS cannot rule over territorial disputes, just over the waters habitable islands are entitled to.
And China and Taiwanpoint to a map published in the 1940s, showing a big U-shaped nine-dashed line around the edge of the sea. That, they say, is historically all China’s. This has no basis in international law, and the Philippines, to China’s fury, is challenging it at an UNCLOS tribunal.
In fact China often fails to clarify whether its claims are based on the nine-dashed line, or on claims to islands, rocks and shoals.
That lack of clarity alarms not just its neighbours and rival claimants, but the United States, which says it has its own national interest in the freedom of navigation in a sea through which a huge chunk of global trade passes
Also alarming is that if these arguments over tiny specks in the sea become so unmanageable, what hope is there for resolving the really big issues? And the biggest of all is the status of Taiwan, still seen by China as part of its territory, but in practice independent since 1949.
For now, Taiwan and China have a thriving commercial relationship. But polls suggest that few in Taiwan hanker after unification with the mainland. And China’s rulers still insist that one day they will have to accept just that.

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

published:16 Apr 2018

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A large container ship stuck on a reef off the coast of New Zealand is leaking oil. Maritime New Zealand said on Thursday the leak appeared to be intermittent and coming from damaged pipes rather than from fuel tanks. It added the extent of the spillage was hard to assess given the extensive damage to the vessel. The 775-foot (236-metre) Liberia-flagged Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles from Tauranga Harbour, early on Wednesday. It has been floundering there since. Maritime New Zealand said the 25 crew on board of the Rena were safe and trying to stop more oil from leaking. The agency added that so far, four seabirds had died in the oil slick, which extends about three miles (five kilometres) from the ship.
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Corals climax despite doomsday messages the reefs dead
Love makes the world go round, it also makes wildlife go absolute crazy, people included. It’s a basic seeded instinct. It’s why we’re here. The result is ingenious ways that animals have increased their chances of reproducing or what we like to call doing the ‘no pants dance’. Enter the humble reef building coral, the glamazon of tropical reefs all around the world.
We know these animals can build the largest living structure, which can be seen from space… the Great Barrier Reef. It’s an impressive feat for an animal no bigger than a thumbnail. But when it comes to love, what the corals can’t do is move. They’re stuck to the spot, which doesn’t seem to leave many possibilities for finding a mate on a Saturday night.
What’s their solution? Corals cleverly co-ordinate the release of their packages of ‘sex cells’ at the same time. Scientists at James Cook University first discovered this natural phenomenon in the early 1980’s. It happens only on one night of the year for each species, so precision timing is everything. The moon becomes their sexual timepiece, providing the cue for the mass release of eggs and sperm into the water column.
The result? 2-7 days after the full moon corals release their eggs and sperm into the water, in what scientists have dubbed ‘the world’s largest synchronized climax’. It’s safe group sex at a distance without the nasty complications and STD’s.
This increases the chance of fertilization. Releasing their eggs and sperm at night also makes it more difficult for predators to see, and what predators can see them are simply overwhelmed and unable to devour such a mass of food, allowing most of the sex cells to survive.
We were lucky enough to witness this maritime orgy at MooreReef, off the southern coast of Cairns in the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef a couple of weeks ago. It was a magical sight as billions of coral polyps broadcasted their eggs and sperm into the water, rising to the surface like a silent sexual symphony.
It begs the question… if you’ve got billions of different species of eggs and sperm swimming around at the same time, how do they know who is who and who they should do? Scientists have discovered that the eggs contain a chemical substance or ‘sperm attractant’ that is irresistible to the sperm of the same species, while a pseudo chastity belt or membrane keeps other eager sperm at bay.
What happens next? The sperm penetrates the egg and within a few hours it develops into a swimming larva where it rides the currents. If it’s not eaten by the plankton feeders, jellyfish and other filter-feeders it will settles on a hard surface and metamorphosise into a single coral polyp to begin a new coral colony.
Unfortunately no spawning events were recorded in far northern sections, which have been heavily hit by bleaching. But there is hope and we saw it first hand. Hopefully this spawning event that we witnessed can help recolonized the northern counterparts and help with the reef recovery efforts.
So people of the world…we proudly proclaim that romance on the reef isn’t dead and our love affair with it shouldn’t be either. So get it on the action and ‘sea for yourself’. Admittedly you may have to wait another year, but trust us; it’s a climax worth waiting for.
Credit: Big thanks to the Biopixel Crew for the trip out to the reef and for scaring the living daylights out of our resident mermaid (she is still in a padded room rocking back and forth..) and Sunlover for letting us use their pontoon. Footage: Oceans IQ

Located in Cairns, the Great Barrier ReefInternational MarineCollege offers world-class maritime facilities and training on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef. To find out more, call +61 7 4041 9813, email: marine.north@tafe.qld.edu.au or visit: www.gbrimc.com.au

published:30 Oct 2017

views:34

One of our WhitePorcelainCrabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome! Probably the most interesting thing about these crabs is their maxillipeds (The Fan-like appendage), which they use to filter foods right out of the water column!

published:12 Oct 2013

views:304

The Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef is the first shellfish restoration reef of its kind in South Australia and will contribute to a healthier marine environment and improved recreational fishing opportunities. The four-hectare site was constructed by Maritime Constructions, using 60 custom made concrete structures and more than 800 tonnes of limestone. The reef will open to recreational fishers in late August.

Biotic reef

There is a variety of biotic reef types, including oyster reefs, but the most massive and widely distributed are tropical coral reefs. Although corals are major contributors to the framework and bulk material comprising a coral reef, the organisms most responsible for reef growth against the constant assault from ocean waves are calcareous algae, especially, although not entirely, species of coralline algae.

Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000sqmi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coralpolyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.CNN labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland.

Videographic: What does China want? | The Economist

An animated infographic depicting China’s territorial disputes. Is China trying to expand its territory?
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.trib.al/rWl91R7
ONE reason China’s spectacular rise sometimes alarms its neighbours is that it is not a status quo power. From its inland, western borders to its eastern and southern seaboard, it claims territory it does not control.
In the west, China’s border dispute with India is more than a minor cartographic tiff. China claims an area of India that is three times the size of Switzerland, the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further west, China occupies Indian claimed territory next to Ladakh in Kashmir, an area called the Aksai Chin. China humiliated India in a brief, bloody war over the dispute in 1962. Since 1988, the two countries have put the dispute on the backburner and got on with developing commercial ties, despite occasional flare-ups.
More immediately dangerous is the stand-off between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu in Chinese.
Japan says they have always been its territory and admits no dispute, claiming also that China only started expressing an interest when it began to seem the area might be rich in oil and gas.
A new and much more dangerous phase of the dispute began in 2012 after Japan’s government nationalised three of the islands by buying them from their private owner.
China accused Japan of breaking an understanding not to change the islands’ status. Ever since, it has been challenging not just Japan’s claim to sovereignty over the islands, but its claim to control them, sending Chinese ships and planes to patrol them.
Raising the stakes is Japan’s alliance with America, which says that though it takes no position on who owns the islands, they are covered by its defence treaty with Japan, since it administers them.
Especially provocative to America and Japan was China’s unilateral announcement in November 2013 of an Air-defenceIdentificationZone, covering the islands.
The worry is less that big powers will deliberately go to war over these desolate little rocks, but that an accidental collision at sea or in the air might escalate unforeseeably.
Similar fears cloud disputes in the South China Sea, where the maritime claims in South-East Asia are even more complex, and, again, competition is made more intense by speculation about vast potential wealth in hydrocarbon resources.
Vietnam was incensed in May 2014 when China moved a massive oil-rig to drill for two months in what it claimed as its waters.
This was near the Paracel Islands, controlled by China since it evicted the former South Vietnamese from them in 1974.
To the south, China and Vietnam also claim the Spratly archipelago, as does Taiwan, whose claim in the sea mirrors China’s. But the Philippines also has a substantial claim. Malaysia and even tiny Brunei also have an interest.
But it is with Vietnam and the Philippines that China’s disputes are most active. The Philippines accuses China of salami-slicing tactics, stealthily expanding its presence in disputed waters. In 1995 it evicted the Philippines from Mischief Reef, and in 2012 from Scarborough Shoal.
This year it has tried to stop the Philippines from resupplying a small garrison it maintains on the Second Thomas Shoal, and appears to be building an airstrip on the Johnson South Reef.
The United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea—UNCLOS—is one forum for tackling these disputes. But UNCLOS cannot rule over territorial disputes, just over the waters habitable islands are entitled to.
And China and Taiwanpoint to a map published in the 1940s, showing a big U-shaped nine-dashed line around the edge of the sea. That, they say, is historically all China’s. This has no basis in international law, and the Philippines, to China’s fury, is challenging it at an UNCLOS tribunal.
In fact China often fails to clarify whether its claims are based on the nine-dashed line, or on claims to islands, rocks and shoals.
That lack of clarity alarms not just its neighbours and rival claimants, but the United States, which says it has its own national interest in the freedom of navigation in a sea through which a huge chunk of global trade passes
Also alarming is that if these arguments over tiny specks in the sea become so unmanageable, what hope is there for resolving the really big issues? And the biggest of all is the status of Taiwan, still seen by China as part of its territory, but in practice independent since 1949.
For now, Taiwan and China have a thriving commercial relationship. But polls suggest that few in Taiwan hanker after unification with the mainland. And China’s rulers still insist that one day they will have to accept just that.

Tombs In The Coral

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

1:25

Video: Ship stuck on reef, leaks oil near New Zealand

Video: Ship stuck on reef, leaks oil near New Zealand

Video: Ship stuck on reef, leaks oil near New Zealand

A large container ship stuck on a reef off the coast of New Zealand is leaking oil. Maritime New Zealand said on Thursday the leak appeared to be intermittent and coming from damaged pipes rather than from fuel tanks. It added the extent of the spillage was hard to assess given the extensive damage to the vessel. The 775-foot (236-metre) Liberia-flagged Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles from Tauranga Harbour, early on Wednesday. It has been floundering there since. Maritime New Zealand said the 25 crew on board of the Rena were safe and trying to stop more oil from leaking. The agency added that so far, four seabirds had died in the oil slick, which extends about three miles (five kilometres) from the ship.
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Maritime Reef July 2011

Corals Climax despite doomsday messages reef is dead

Corals climax despite doomsday messages the reefs dead
Love makes the world go round, it also makes wildlife go absolute crazy, people included. It’s a basic seeded instinct. It’s why we’re here. The result is ingenious ways that animals have increased their chances of reproducing or what we like to call doing the ‘no pants dance’. Enter the humble reef building coral, the glamazon of tropical reefs all around the world.
We know these animals can build the largest living structure, which can be seen from space… the Great Barrier Reef. It’s an impressive feat for an animal no bigger than a thumbnail. But when it comes to love, what the corals can’t do is move. They’re stuck to the spot, which doesn’t seem to leave many possibilities for finding a mate on a Saturday night.
What’s their solution? Corals cleverly co-ordinate the release of their packages of ‘sex cells’ at the same time. Scientists at James Cook University first discovered this natural phenomenon in the early 1980’s. It happens only on one night of the year for each species, so precision timing is everything. The moon becomes their sexual timepiece, providing the cue for the mass release of eggs and sperm into the water column.
The result? 2-7 days after the full moon corals release their eggs and sperm into the water, in what scientists have dubbed ‘the world’s largest synchronized climax’. It’s safe group sex at a distance without the nasty complications and STD’s.
This increases the chance of fertilization. Releasing their eggs and sperm at night also makes it more difficult for predators to see, and what predators can see them are simply overwhelmed and unable to devour such a mass of food, allowing most of the sex cells to survive.
We were lucky enough to witness this maritime orgy at MooreReef, off the southern coast of Cairns in the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef a couple of weeks ago. It was a magical sight as billions of coral polyps broadcasted their eggs and sperm into the water, rising to the surface like a silent sexual symphony.
It begs the question… if you’ve got billions of different species of eggs and sperm swimming around at the same time, how do they know who is who and who they should do? Scientists have discovered that the eggs contain a chemical substance or ‘sperm attractant’ that is irresistible to the sperm of the same species, while a pseudo chastity belt or membrane keeps other eager sperm at bay.
What happens next? The sperm penetrates the egg and within a few hours it develops into a swimming larva where it rides the currents. If it’s not eaten by the plankton feeders, jellyfish and other filter-feeders it will settles on a hard surface and metamorphosise into a single coral polyp to begin a new coral colony.
Unfortunately no spawning events were recorded in far northern sections, which have been heavily hit by bleaching. But there is hope and we saw it first hand. Hopefully this spawning event that we witnessed can help recolonized the northern counterparts and help with the reef recovery efforts.
So people of the world…we proudly proclaim that romance on the reef isn’t dead and our love affair with it shouldn’t be either. So get it on the action and ‘sea for yourself’. Admittedly you may have to wait another year, but trust us; it’s a climax worth waiting for.
Credit: Big thanks to the Biopixel Crew for the trip out to the reef and for scaring the living daylights out of our resident mermaid (she is still in a padded room rocking back and forth..) and Sunlover for letting us use their pontoon. Footage: Oceans IQ

Great Barrier Reef International Marine College

Located in Cairns, the Great Barrier ReefInternational MarineCollege offers world-class maritime facilities and training on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef. To find out more, call +61 7 4041 9813, email: marine.north@tafe.qld.edu.au or visit: www.gbrimc.com.au

1:01

White Porcelain Crab @ Maritime Reef

White Porcelain Crab @ Maritime Reef

White Porcelain Crab @ Maritime Reef

One of our WhitePorcelainCrabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome! Probably the most interesting thing about these crabs is their maxillipeds (The Fan-like appendage), which they use to filter foods right out of the water column!

1:31

Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef

Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef

Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef

The Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef is the first shellfish restoration reef of its kind in South Australia and will contribute to a healthier marine environment and improved recreational fishing opportunities. The four-hectare site was constructed by Maritime Constructions, using 60 custom made concrete structures and more than 800 tonnes of limestone. The reef will open to recreational fishers in late August.

1:07

Black Ice Snowflake Clownfish Visiting Maritime Reef!

Black Ice Snowflake Clownfish Visiting Maritime Reef!

Black Ice Snowflake Clownfish Visiting Maritime Reef!

In preparation for a move into a new aquarium setup, I've brought my Black IceSnowflakeClowns into MaritimeReef to hang out for a few weeks while I get everything ready to go in the new tank setup. Eventually, we do intend to breed this pair, but not until we have our clownfish breeding program up and running and stable. Our goal is to make these outstanding clownfish more accesible to other salt water tank fans.

300 Gallon Tank @ Maritime Reef

Freshwater Plant Grow Tank @ Maritime Reef

This is one of the freshwater grow tanks for plants at the shop. We have several species of plants in this tank atm, however once the other plant tanks are ready, we will most likely keep 3-5 species of plants per tank.
This tank does have livestock, currently we have 6 GermanBlueRams (We will be breeding these) as well as 2 Zebra Loaches.
Suspended above the tank is a 30W 6000-7000K LED

1:07

Newcastle University - Protecting coral reefs

Newcastle University - Protecting coral reefs

Newcastle University - Protecting coral reefs

Find out how research carried out by Newcastle University, UK, has helped change the way the world’s precious coral reefs are protected and restored.
Reef managers, local governments and the maritime industry are now using international guidelines shaped by ourteam’s findings to protect this natural resource from climate change and man-made threats.
Read the full story http://bit.ly/1P6CQhv

4:11

75 G reef tank update Ecotech RMS

75 G reef tank update Ecotech RMS

75 G reef tank update Ecotech RMS

300 Gallon Fish Only Display - Maritime Reef

The tank is about 3 weeks in... we cycled with a green reef chromis, and have introduced a mature lunar wrasse so far, the Blue Jaw Trigger (Male) is being introduced later today, then next week the Moorish Idol hopefully as well as Sohal Tang...

Videographic: What does China want? | The Economist

An animated infographic depicting China’s territorial disputes. Is China trying to expand its territory?
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.trib.al/rWl91R7
ONE reason China’s spectacular rise sometimes alarms its neighbours is that it is not a status quo power. From its inland, western borders to its eastern and southern seaboard, it claims territory it does not control.
In the west, China’s border dispute with India is more than a minor cartographic tiff. China claims an area of India that is three times the size of Switzerland, the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further west, China occupies Indian claimed territory next to Ladakh in Kashmir, an area called the Aksai Chin. China humiliated India in a brief, bloody war over the dispute in 1962. Since 1988, ...

Tombs In The Coral

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

published: 16 Apr 2018

Video: Ship stuck on reef, leaks oil near New Zealand

A large container ship stuck on a reef off the coast of New Zealand is leaking oil. Maritime New Zealand said on Thursday the leak appeared to be intermittent and coming from damaged pipes rather than from fuel tanks. It added the extent of the spillage was hard to assess given the extensive damage to the vessel. The 775-foot (236-metre) Liberia-flagged Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles from Tauranga Harbour, early on Wednesday. It has been floundering there since. Maritime New Zealand said the 25 crew on board of the Rena were safe and trying to stop more oil from leaking. The agency added that so far, four seabirds had died in the oil slick, which extends about three miles (five kilometres) from the ship.
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published: 06 Oct 2011

Purple Tangs @ Maritime Reef

published: 07 Oct 2013

Maritime Reef July 2011

Corals Climax despite doomsday messages reef is dead

Corals climax despite doomsday messages the reefs dead
Love makes the world go round, it also makes wildlife go absolute crazy, people included. It’s a basic seeded instinct. It’s why we’re here. The result is ingenious ways that animals have increased their chances of reproducing or what we like to call doing the ‘no pants dance’. Enter the humble reef building coral, the glamazon of tropical reefs all around the world.
We know these animals can build the largest living structure, which can be seen from space… the Great Barrier Reef. It’s an impressive feat for an animal no bigger than a thumbnail. But when it comes to love, what the corals can’t do is move. They’re stuck to the spot, which doesn’t seem to leave many possibilities for finding a mate on a Saturday night.
What’s their s...

Great Barrier Reef International Marine College

Located in Cairns, the Great Barrier ReefInternational MarineCollege offers world-class maritime facilities and training on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef. To find out more, call +61 7 4041 9813, email: marine.north@tafe.qld.edu.au or visit: www.gbrimc.com.au

published: 30 Oct 2017

White Porcelain Crab @ Maritime Reef

One of our WhitePorcelainCrabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome! Probably the most interesting thing about these crabs is their maxillipeds (The Fan-like appendage), which they use to filter foods right out of the water column!

published: 12 Oct 2013

Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef

The Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef is the first shellfish restoration reef of its kind in South Australia and will contribute to a healthier marine environment and improved recreational fishing opportunities. The four-hectare site was constructed by Maritime Constructions, using 60 custom made concrete structures and more than 800 tonnes of limestone. The reef will open to recreational fishers in late August.

published: 09 Aug 2017

Black Ice Snowflake Clownfish Visiting Maritime Reef!

In preparation for a move into a new aquarium setup, I've brought my Black IceSnowflakeClowns into MaritimeReef to hang out for a few weeks while I get everything ready to go in the new tank setup. Eventually, we do intend to breed this pair, but not until we have our clownfish breeding program up and running and stable. Our goal is to make these outstanding clownfish more accesible to other salt water tank fans.

300 Gallon Tank @ Maritime Reef

Freshwater Plant Grow Tank @ Maritime Reef

This is one of the freshwater grow tanks for plants at the shop. We have several species of plants in this tank atm, however once the other plant tanks are ready, we will most likely keep 3-5 species of plants per tank.
This tank does have livestock, currently we have 6 GermanBlueRams (We will be breeding these) as well as 2 Zebra Loaches.
Suspended above the tank is a 30W 6000-7000K LED

published: 20 Oct 2011

Newcastle University - Protecting coral reefs

Find out how research carried out by Newcastle University, UK, has helped change the way the world’s precious coral reefs are protected and restored.
Reef managers, local governments and the maritime industry are now using international guidelines shaped by ourteam’s findings to protect this natural resource from climate change and man-made threats.
Read the full story http://bit.ly/1P6CQhv

published: 23 Dec 2015

75 G reef tank update Ecotech RMS

300 Gallon Fish Only Display - Maritime Reef

The tank is about 3 weeks in... we cycled with a green reef chromis, and have introduced a mature lunar wrasse so far, the Blue Jaw Trigger (Male) is being introduced later today, then next week the Moorish Idol hopefully as well as Sohal Tang...

An animated infographic depicting China’s territorial disputes. Is China trying to expand its territory?
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.trib.al/rWl91R7
ONE reason China’s spectacular rise sometimes alarms its neighbours is that it is not a status quo power. From its inland, western borders to its eastern and southern seaboard, it claims territory it does not control.
In the west, China’s border dispute with India is more than a minor cartographic tiff. China claims an area of India that is three times the size of Switzerland, the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further west, China occupies Indian claimed territory next to Ladakh in Kashmir, an area called the Aksai Chin. China humiliated India in a brief, bloody war over the dispute in 1962. Since 1988, the two countries have put the dispute on the backburner and got on with developing commercial ties, despite occasional flare-ups.
More immediately dangerous is the stand-off between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu in Chinese.
Japan says they have always been its territory and admits no dispute, claiming also that China only started expressing an interest when it began to seem the area might be rich in oil and gas.
A new and much more dangerous phase of the dispute began in 2012 after Japan’s government nationalised three of the islands by buying them from their private owner.
China accused Japan of breaking an understanding not to change the islands’ status. Ever since, it has been challenging not just Japan’s claim to sovereignty over the islands, but its claim to control them, sending Chinese ships and planes to patrol them.
Raising the stakes is Japan’s alliance with America, which says that though it takes no position on who owns the islands, they are covered by its defence treaty with Japan, since it administers them.
Especially provocative to America and Japan was China’s unilateral announcement in November 2013 of an Air-defenceIdentificationZone, covering the islands.
The worry is less that big powers will deliberately go to war over these desolate little rocks, but that an accidental collision at sea or in the air might escalate unforeseeably.
Similar fears cloud disputes in the South China Sea, where the maritime claims in South-East Asia are even more complex, and, again, competition is made more intense by speculation about vast potential wealth in hydrocarbon resources.
Vietnam was incensed in May 2014 when China moved a massive oil-rig to drill for two months in what it claimed as its waters.
This was near the Paracel Islands, controlled by China since it evicted the former South Vietnamese from them in 1974.
To the south, China and Vietnam also claim the Spratly archipelago, as does Taiwan, whose claim in the sea mirrors China’s. But the Philippines also has a substantial claim. Malaysia and even tiny Brunei also have an interest.
But it is with Vietnam and the Philippines that China’s disputes are most active. The Philippines accuses China of salami-slicing tactics, stealthily expanding its presence in disputed waters. In 1995 it evicted the Philippines from Mischief Reef, and in 2012 from Scarborough Shoal.
This year it has tried to stop the Philippines from resupplying a small garrison it maintains on the Second Thomas Shoal, and appears to be building an airstrip on the Johnson South Reef.
The United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea—UNCLOS—is one forum for tackling these disputes. But UNCLOS cannot rule over territorial disputes, just over the waters habitable islands are entitled to.
And China and Taiwanpoint to a map published in the 1940s, showing a big U-shaped nine-dashed line around the edge of the sea. That, they say, is historically all China’s. This has no basis in international law, and the Philippines, to China’s fury, is challenging it at an UNCLOS tribunal.
In fact China often fails to clarify whether its claims are based on the nine-dashed line, or on claims to islands, rocks and shoals.
That lack of clarity alarms not just its neighbours and rival claimants, but the United States, which says it has its own national interest in the freedom of navigation in a sea through which a huge chunk of global trade passes
Also alarming is that if these arguments over tiny specks in the sea become so unmanageable, what hope is there for resolving the really big issues? And the biggest of all is the status of Taiwan, still seen by China as part of its territory, but in practice independent since 1949.
For now, Taiwan and China have a thriving commercial relationship. But polls suggest that few in Taiwan hanker after unification with the mainland. And China’s rulers still insist that one day they will have to accept just that.

An animated infographic depicting China’s territorial disputes. Is China trying to expand its territory?
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ONE reason China’s spectacular rise sometimes alarms its neighbours is that it is not a status quo power. From its inland, western borders to its eastern and southern seaboard, it claims territory it does not control.
In the west, China’s border dispute with India is more than a minor cartographic tiff. China claims an area of India that is three times the size of Switzerland, the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further west, China occupies Indian claimed territory next to Ladakh in Kashmir, an area called the Aksai Chin. China humiliated India in a brief, bloody war over the dispute in 1962. Since 1988, the two countries have put the dispute on the backburner and got on with developing commercial ties, despite occasional flare-ups.
More immediately dangerous is the stand-off between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu in Chinese.
Japan says they have always been its territory and admits no dispute, claiming also that China only started expressing an interest when it began to seem the area might be rich in oil and gas.
A new and much more dangerous phase of the dispute began in 2012 after Japan’s government nationalised three of the islands by buying them from their private owner.
China accused Japan of breaking an understanding not to change the islands’ status. Ever since, it has been challenging not just Japan’s claim to sovereignty over the islands, but its claim to control them, sending Chinese ships and planes to patrol them.
Raising the stakes is Japan’s alliance with America, which says that though it takes no position on who owns the islands, they are covered by its defence treaty with Japan, since it administers them.
Especially provocative to America and Japan was China’s unilateral announcement in November 2013 of an Air-defenceIdentificationZone, covering the islands.
The worry is less that big powers will deliberately go to war over these desolate little rocks, but that an accidental collision at sea or in the air might escalate unforeseeably.
Similar fears cloud disputes in the South China Sea, where the maritime claims in South-East Asia are even more complex, and, again, competition is made more intense by speculation about vast potential wealth in hydrocarbon resources.
Vietnam was incensed in May 2014 when China moved a massive oil-rig to drill for two months in what it claimed as its waters.
This was near the Paracel Islands, controlled by China since it evicted the former South Vietnamese from them in 1974.
To the south, China and Vietnam also claim the Spratly archipelago, as does Taiwan, whose claim in the sea mirrors China’s. But the Philippines also has a substantial claim. Malaysia and even tiny Brunei also have an interest.
But it is with Vietnam and the Philippines that China’s disputes are most active. The Philippines accuses China of salami-slicing tactics, stealthily expanding its presence in disputed waters. In 1995 it evicted the Philippines from Mischief Reef, and in 2012 from Scarborough Shoal.
This year it has tried to stop the Philippines from resupplying a small garrison it maintains on the Second Thomas Shoal, and appears to be building an airstrip on the Johnson South Reef.
The United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea—UNCLOS—is one forum for tackling these disputes. But UNCLOS cannot rule over territorial disputes, just over the waters habitable islands are entitled to.
And China and Taiwanpoint to a map published in the 1940s, showing a big U-shaped nine-dashed line around the edge of the sea. That, they say, is historically all China’s. This has no basis in international law, and the Philippines, to China’s fury, is challenging it at an UNCLOS tribunal.
In fact China often fails to clarify whether its claims are based on the nine-dashed line, or on claims to islands, rocks and shoals.
That lack of clarity alarms not just its neighbours and rival claimants, but the United States, which says it has its own national interest in the freedom of navigation in a sea through which a huge chunk of global trade passes
Also alarming is that if these arguments over tiny specks in the sea become so unmanageable, what hope is there for resolving the really big issues? And the biggest of all is the status of Taiwan, still seen by China as part of its territory, but in practice independent since 1949.
For now, Taiwan and China have a thriving commercial relationship. But polls suggest that few in Taiwan hanker after unification with the mainland. And China’s rulers still insist that one day they will have to accept just that.

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

A large container ship stuck on a reef off the coast of New Zealand is leaking oil. Maritime New Zealand said on Thursday the leak appeared to be intermittent and coming from damaged pipes rather than from fuel tanks. It added the extent of the spillage was hard to assess given the extensive damage to the vessel. The 775-foot (236-metre) Liberia-flagged Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles from Tauranga Harbour, early on Wednesday. It has been floundering there since. Maritime New Zealand said the 25 crew on board of the Rena were safe and trying to stop more oil from leaking. The agency added that so far, four seabirds had died in the oil slick, which extends about three miles (five kilometres) from the ship.
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A large container ship stuck on a reef off the coast of New Zealand is leaking oil. Maritime New Zealand said on Thursday the leak appeared to be intermittent and coming from damaged pipes rather than from fuel tanks. It added the extent of the spillage was hard to assess given the extensive damage to the vessel. The 775-foot (236-metre) Liberia-flagged Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles from Tauranga Harbour, early on Wednesday. It has been floundering there since. Maritime New Zealand said the 25 crew on board of the Rena were safe and trying to stop more oil from leaking. The agency added that so far, four seabirds had died in the oil slick, which extends about three miles (five kilometres) from the ship.
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Corals climax despite doomsday messages the reefs dead
Love makes the world go round, it also makes wildlife go absolute crazy, people included. It’s a basic seeded instinct. It’s why we’re here. The result is ingenious ways that animals have increased their chances of reproducing or what we like to call doing the ‘no pants dance’. Enter the humble reef building coral, the glamazon of tropical reefs all around the world.
We know these animals can build the largest living structure, which can be seen from space… the Great Barrier Reef. It’s an impressive feat for an animal no bigger than a thumbnail. But when it comes to love, what the corals can’t do is move. They’re stuck to the spot, which doesn’t seem to leave many possibilities for finding a mate on a Saturday night.
What’s their solution? Corals cleverly co-ordinate the release of their packages of ‘sex cells’ at the same time. Scientists at James Cook University first discovered this natural phenomenon in the early 1980’s. It happens only on one night of the year for each species, so precision timing is everything. The moon becomes their sexual timepiece, providing the cue for the mass release of eggs and sperm into the water column.
The result? 2-7 days after the full moon corals release their eggs and sperm into the water, in what scientists have dubbed ‘the world’s largest synchronized climax’. It’s safe group sex at a distance without the nasty complications and STD’s.
This increases the chance of fertilization. Releasing their eggs and sperm at night also makes it more difficult for predators to see, and what predators can see them are simply overwhelmed and unable to devour such a mass of food, allowing most of the sex cells to survive.
We were lucky enough to witness this maritime orgy at MooreReef, off the southern coast of Cairns in the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef a couple of weeks ago. It was a magical sight as billions of coral polyps broadcasted their eggs and sperm into the water, rising to the surface like a silent sexual symphony.
It begs the question… if you’ve got billions of different species of eggs and sperm swimming around at the same time, how do they know who is who and who they should do? Scientists have discovered that the eggs contain a chemical substance or ‘sperm attractant’ that is irresistible to the sperm of the same species, while a pseudo chastity belt or membrane keeps other eager sperm at bay.
What happens next? The sperm penetrates the egg and within a few hours it develops into a swimming larva where it rides the currents. If it’s not eaten by the plankton feeders, jellyfish and other filter-feeders it will settles on a hard surface and metamorphosise into a single coral polyp to begin a new coral colony.
Unfortunately no spawning events were recorded in far northern sections, which have been heavily hit by bleaching. But there is hope and we saw it first hand. Hopefully this spawning event that we witnessed can help recolonized the northern counterparts and help with the reef recovery efforts.
So people of the world…we proudly proclaim that romance on the reef isn’t dead and our love affair with it shouldn’t be either. So get it on the action and ‘sea for yourself’. Admittedly you may have to wait another year, but trust us; it’s a climax worth waiting for.
Credit: Big thanks to the Biopixel Crew for the trip out to the reef and for scaring the living daylights out of our resident mermaid (she is still in a padded room rocking back and forth..) and Sunlover for letting us use their pontoon. Footage: Oceans IQ

Corals climax despite doomsday messages the reefs dead
Love makes the world go round, it also makes wildlife go absolute crazy, people included. It’s a basic seeded instinct. It’s why we’re here. The result is ingenious ways that animals have increased their chances of reproducing or what we like to call doing the ‘no pants dance’. Enter the humble reef building coral, the glamazon of tropical reefs all around the world.
We know these animals can build the largest living structure, which can be seen from space… the Great Barrier Reef. It’s an impressive feat for an animal no bigger than a thumbnail. But when it comes to love, what the corals can’t do is move. They’re stuck to the spot, which doesn’t seem to leave many possibilities for finding a mate on a Saturday night.
What’s their solution? Corals cleverly co-ordinate the release of their packages of ‘sex cells’ at the same time. Scientists at James Cook University first discovered this natural phenomenon in the early 1980’s. It happens only on one night of the year for each species, so precision timing is everything. The moon becomes their sexual timepiece, providing the cue for the mass release of eggs and sperm into the water column.
The result? 2-7 days after the full moon corals release their eggs and sperm into the water, in what scientists have dubbed ‘the world’s largest synchronized climax’. It’s safe group sex at a distance without the nasty complications and STD’s.
This increases the chance of fertilization. Releasing their eggs and sperm at night also makes it more difficult for predators to see, and what predators can see them are simply overwhelmed and unable to devour such a mass of food, allowing most of the sex cells to survive.
We were lucky enough to witness this maritime orgy at MooreReef, off the southern coast of Cairns in the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef a couple of weeks ago. It was a magical sight as billions of coral polyps broadcasted their eggs and sperm into the water, rising to the surface like a silent sexual symphony.
It begs the question… if you’ve got billions of different species of eggs and sperm swimming around at the same time, how do they know who is who and who they should do? Scientists have discovered that the eggs contain a chemical substance or ‘sperm attractant’ that is irresistible to the sperm of the same species, while a pseudo chastity belt or membrane keeps other eager sperm at bay.
What happens next? The sperm penetrates the egg and within a few hours it develops into a swimming larva where it rides the currents. If it’s not eaten by the plankton feeders, jellyfish and other filter-feeders it will settles on a hard surface and metamorphosise into a single coral polyp to begin a new coral colony.
Unfortunately no spawning events were recorded in far northern sections, which have been heavily hit by bleaching. But there is hope and we saw it first hand. Hopefully this spawning event that we witnessed can help recolonized the northern counterparts and help with the reef recovery efforts.
So people of the world…we proudly proclaim that romance on the reef isn’t dead and our love affair with it shouldn’t be either. So get it on the action and ‘sea for yourself’. Admittedly you may have to wait another year, but trust us; it’s a climax worth waiting for.
Credit: Big thanks to the Biopixel Crew for the trip out to the reef and for scaring the living daylights out of our resident mermaid (she is still in a padded room rocking back and forth..) and Sunlover for letting us use their pontoon. Footage: Oceans IQ

Located in Cairns, the Great Barrier ReefInternational MarineCollege offers world-class maritime facilities and training on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef. To find out more, call +61 7 4041 9813, email: marine.north@tafe.qld.edu.au or visit: www.gbrimc.com.au

Located in Cairns, the Great Barrier ReefInternational MarineCollege offers world-class maritime facilities and training on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef. To find out more, call +61 7 4041 9813, email: marine.north@tafe.qld.edu.au or visit: www.gbrimc.com.au

White Porcelain Crab @ Maritime Reef

One of our WhitePorcelainCrabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome! Probably the most interesting thing about these crabs is their maxill...

One of our WhitePorcelainCrabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome! Probably the most interesting thing about these crabs is their maxillipeds (The Fan-like appendage), which they use to filter foods right out of the water column!

One of our WhitePorcelainCrabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome! Probably the most interesting thing about these crabs is their maxillipeds (The Fan-like appendage), which they use to filter foods right out of the water column!

The Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef is the first shellfish restoration reef of its kind in South Australia and will contribute to a healthier marine environment and improved recreational fishing opportunities. The four-hectare site was constructed by Maritime Constructions, using 60 custom made concrete structures and more than 800 tonnes of limestone. The reef will open to recreational fishers in late August.

The Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef is the first shellfish restoration reef of its kind in South Australia and will contribute to a healthier marine environment and improved recreational fishing opportunities. The four-hectare site was constructed by Maritime Constructions, using 60 custom made concrete structures and more than 800 tonnes of limestone. The reef will open to recreational fishers in late August.

In preparation for a move into a new aquarium setup, I've brought my Black IceSnowflakeClowns into MaritimeReef to hang out for a few weeks while I get everything ready to go in the new tank setup. Eventually, we do intend to breed this pair, but not until we have our clownfish breeding program up and running and stable. Our goal is to make these outstanding clownfish more accesible to other salt water tank fans.

In preparation for a move into a new aquarium setup, I've brought my Black IceSnowflakeClowns into MaritimeReef to hang out for a few weeks while I get everything ready to go in the new tank setup. Eventually, we do intend to breed this pair, but not until we have our clownfish breeding program up and running and stable. Our goal is to make these outstanding clownfish more accesible to other salt water tank fans.

Freshwater Plant Grow Tank @ Maritime Reef

This is one of the freshwater grow tanks for plants at the shop. We have several species of plants in this tank atm, however once the other plant tanks are read...

This is one of the freshwater grow tanks for plants at the shop. We have several species of plants in this tank atm, however once the other plant tanks are ready, we will most likely keep 3-5 species of plants per tank.
This tank does have livestock, currently we have 6 GermanBlueRams (We will be breeding these) as well as 2 Zebra Loaches.
Suspended above the tank is a 30W 6000-7000K LED

This is one of the freshwater grow tanks for plants at the shop. We have several species of plants in this tank atm, however once the other plant tanks are ready, we will most likely keep 3-5 species of plants per tank.
This tank does have livestock, currently we have 6 GermanBlueRams (We will be breeding these) as well as 2 Zebra Loaches.
Suspended above the tank is a 30W 6000-7000K LED

Newcastle University - Protecting coral reefs

Find out how research carried out by Newcastle University, UK, has helped change the way the world’s precious coral reefs are protected and restored.
Reef man...

Find out how research carried out by Newcastle University, UK, has helped change the way the world’s precious coral reefs are protected and restored.
Reef managers, local governments and the maritime industry are now using international guidelines shaped by ourteam’s findings to protect this natural resource from climate change and man-made threats.
Read the full story http://bit.ly/1P6CQhv

Find out how research carried out by Newcastle University, UK, has helped change the way the world’s precious coral reefs are protected and restored.
Reef managers, local governments and the maritime industry are now using international guidelines shaped by ourteam’s findings to protect this natural resource from climate change and man-made threats.
Read the full story http://bit.ly/1P6CQhv

300 Gallon Fish Only Display - Maritime Reef

The tank is about 3 weeks in... we cycled with a green reef chromis, and have introduced a mature lunar wrasse so far, the Blue Jaw Trigger (Male) is being intr...

The tank is about 3 weeks in... we cycled with a green reef chromis, and have introduced a mature lunar wrasse so far, the Blue Jaw Trigger (Male) is being introduced later today, then next week the Moorish Idol hopefully as well as Sohal Tang...

The tank is about 3 weeks in... we cycled with a green reef chromis, and have introduced a mature lunar wrasse so far, the Blue Jaw Trigger (Male) is being introduced later today, then next week the Moorish Idol hopefully as well as Sohal Tang...

Tombs In The Coral

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

published: 16 Apr 2018

Cuba Wild Island of the Caribbean - The Secrets of Nature

Cuba is a tropical paradise. It is the largest and yet least known island in the Caribbean. In recent years it has become famous for its old American cars, Fidel Castro's brand of communism, cigars and rum. Millions of tourists visit each year to enjoy the tropical climate and the wonderful beaches and warm seas.But there is another Cuba, the little known wildlife of this Caribbean island. Over half the plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth. Over 80% of the reptiles and amphibians are uniquely Cuban. They include the smallest four-legged animal on earth and the world's most aggressive crocodile. This programme looks at these little known creatures and investigates how they arrived on Cuba and when?The Story starts in the Caribbean Sea. Cuba has many unspoilt reefs that team wi...

published: 11 Feb 2014

Standoff at Scarborough Shoal | 101 East

The South China Sea is a strategically important and resource-rich area in Asia. Around half of the world's merchant fleets pass through every year carrying an estimated $5 trillion worth of trade. The area is also believed to contain valuable oil and gas deposits.
And ownership is hotly contested. There are ongoing territorial disputes between Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and China. One of the most well-known is the Spratly Islands' hydrocarbon deposits valued at $26.3 trillion.
The latest tension is at the Scarborough Shoal, a small cluster of uninhabitable islands which lies about 220km off the coast of the Philippines and falls under its exclusive economic zone according to international maritime law. But China also claims ownership despite its nearest coastline being 90...

published: 03 Aug 2012

Ancient Chinese Explorers[History Documentary]HD

In 1999, New York Times journalist Nicholas D. Kristof reported a surprising encounter on a tiny African island called Pate, just off the coast of Kenya. Here, in a village of stone huts set amongst dense mangrove trees, Kristof met a number of elderly men who told him that they were descendants of Chinese sailors, shipwrecked on Pate many centuries ago. Their ancestors had traded with the local Africans, who had given them giraffes to take back to China; then their boat was driven onto the nearby reef. Kristof noted many clues that seemed to confirm the islanders' tale, including their vaguely Asian appearance and the presence of antique porcelain heirlooms in their homes.
InsideChina`sGreat Pyramids:https://youtu.be/0i6ywQW8Btc
The Military of Ancient China:https://youtu.be/63aE4iceu...

published: 12 Jul 2015

Secrets in the Dust - A Dive into History

A Dive into HistoryAlfredMerlin was digging for Roman remains in Tunisia in 1907 when sponge-divers identified mysterious remains – stone columns, just off-shore in the Mediterranean. Was this the legendary lost city of Atlantis? But when beautifully-crafted Roman works of art were salvaged from the site Merlin, came to an even more intriguing conclusion: these were the remains of a Roman shipwreck.
The Mediterranean, he knew, was the super-highway of the ancient world – water was the only efficient way to transport heavy goods quickly throughout the Empire. And when greedy traders overloaded their ships, the resulting disasters left behind a gift for archaeologists two thousand years later. Understand where the ships were going and what they were taking, and you could decode the whole ...

Is The South China Sea On The Brink Of War?

ReefMadness: The insignificant island chain pushing the south china sea to the brink of war
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The Spratly Islands are an unremarkable scattering of reefs and sandbars in the South China Sea. But, rich in resources and claimed by six countries, could they be the trigger for the world's next major conflict?
"We call our Kalayaan Island group the submerged Saudi Arabia of the Philippines." Eugenio Bito-Onon is mayor of a seemingly innocuous islet municipality, home to just 150 residents. But with the region ...

published: 27 May 2014

Troubled Waters? The South China Sea in Focus

If you build it, do you own it? Tensions over territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea—not limited to the construction of islands capable of supporting military outposts—have been simmering for years. Only a few weeks into 2018, both China and the United States appear to have decided it is time for an escalation. The United States sent a navy destroyer near the Scarborough Shoal—the first such “Freedom of Navigation” mission in this area—and China publicly rebuked the United States for doing so, asserting that its sovereignty was violated. Such missions have long irked China, but the United States continues to have a large presence in the region. Is China ready to enforce its claims in the Pacific? How is the United States planning to deflect and diffuse these efforts, espe...

published: 24 Apr 2018

The Reef Table | Episode 1 | Deepwater Fish with Lemon TYK

Sunken ShipRescue (Costa Concordia) - Biggest Maritime Rescue - WorldDocumentary Films.
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"Final Duty" SINKING OF BIBB & DUANE

This video is the documentary of the USCGC Bibb and Duane's final journey to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys. Both of the ships were reefed November of 1987 off the coast of Key Largo. These ships were referred to as the "Secretary" or 327-foot class cutters and were all named after former Secretaries of the TreasuryDepartment.
The USCGC Ingham which was a sister-ship was decommissioned in Portsmouth, VA May 27th 1988, and now serves as a public museum.
For more information regarding the museum go to: www.uscgcingham.org
For more information regarding the dive site go to:
www.divespots.com/scuba-diving-spots/florida/florida-keys/key-largo/spots/uscg-duane
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CAPT CORKY OF KEY LARGO

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

Cuba Wild Island of the Caribbean - The Secrets of Nature

Cuba is a tropical paradise. It is the largest and yet least known island in the Caribbean. In recent years it has become famous for its old American cars, Fide...

Cuba is a tropical paradise. It is the largest and yet least known island in the Caribbean. In recent years it has become famous for its old American cars, Fidel Castro's brand of communism, cigars and rum. Millions of tourists visit each year to enjoy the tropical climate and the wonderful beaches and warm seas.But there is another Cuba, the little known wildlife of this Caribbean island. Over half the plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth. Over 80% of the reptiles and amphibians are uniquely Cuban. They include the smallest four-legged animal on earth and the world's most aggressive crocodile. This programme looks at these little known creatures and investigates how they arrived on Cuba and when?The Story starts in the Caribbean Sea. Cuba has many unspoilt reefs that team with colourful fish. This is due in part to the recent communist regime, for there has been strict control over boats and very limited fishing.. So the reefs have remained pristine, a glimpse of how the rest of the Caribbean looked before development degraded so much.

Cuba is a tropical paradise. It is the largest and yet least known island in the Caribbean. In recent years it has become famous for its old American cars, Fidel Castro's brand of communism, cigars and rum. Millions of tourists visit each year to enjoy the tropical climate and the wonderful beaches and warm seas.But there is another Cuba, the little known wildlife of this Caribbean island. Over half the plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth. Over 80% of the reptiles and amphibians are uniquely Cuban. They include the smallest four-legged animal on earth and the world's most aggressive crocodile. This programme looks at these little known creatures and investigates how they arrived on Cuba and when?The Story starts in the Caribbean Sea. Cuba has many unspoilt reefs that team with colourful fish. This is due in part to the recent communist regime, for there has been strict control over boats and very limited fishing.. So the reefs have remained pristine, a glimpse of how the rest of the Caribbean looked before development degraded so much.

Standoff at Scarborough Shoal | 101 East

The South China Sea is a strategically important and resource-rich area in Asia. Around half of the world's merchant fleets pass through every year carrying an ...

The South China Sea is a strategically important and resource-rich area in Asia. Around half of the world's merchant fleets pass through every year carrying an estimated $5 trillion worth of trade. The area is also believed to contain valuable oil and gas deposits.
And ownership is hotly contested. There are ongoing territorial disputes between Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and China. One of the most well-known is the Spratly Islands' hydrocarbon deposits valued at $26.3 trillion.
The latest tension is at the Scarborough Shoal, a small cluster of uninhabitable islands which lies about 220km off the coast of the Philippines and falls under its exclusive economic zone according to international maritime law. But China also claims ownership despite its nearest coastline being 900km away. The Scarborough Shoal has valuable resources including fishing, shipping routes and potentially enormous oil and gas deposits.
In early April, the Philippines' naval forces intercepted eight Chinese fishing vessels in the Scarborough Shoal. They found large numbers of illegally-fished turtles, baby sharks, clams and corals on board. They tried to arrest the poachers but were stopped by the arrival of two Chinese maritime ships leading to a two-month standoff.
The David and Goliath-style situation has forced the Philippines, along with other smaller Asian countries, to work together on joint security. It has also pushed them to cement military ties with the US and Australia.
After more than two decades of double-digit increases in defence spending, China now has the largest fleet of advanced warships, submarines and long strike aircraft in Asia. The Philippines is working hard to get support from allies such as Japan and the US to help it build up its military capabilities.
But months of simmering tension between both sides over the disputed territory is threatening to exact a heavy toll on Philippines' economy and is damaging vital tourism and agricultural sectors.
Business communities in the Philippines are concerned the ongoing standoff threatens trade relations and investments after China tightened regulations on banana imports from the Philippines and several Chinese tour groups cancelled visits to the Philippines. Energy and infrastructure projects have also been put on hold.
As China flexes its economic and military muscle across the Asia Pacific region, 101 East asks if this escalation is a threat to peace and stability.
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The South China Sea is a strategically important and resource-rich area in Asia. Around half of the world's merchant fleets pass through every year carrying an estimated $5 trillion worth of trade. The area is also believed to contain valuable oil and gas deposits.
And ownership is hotly contested. There are ongoing territorial disputes between Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and China. One of the most well-known is the Spratly Islands' hydrocarbon deposits valued at $26.3 trillion.
The latest tension is at the Scarborough Shoal, a small cluster of uninhabitable islands which lies about 220km off the coast of the Philippines and falls under its exclusive economic zone according to international maritime law. But China also claims ownership despite its nearest coastline being 900km away. The Scarborough Shoal has valuable resources including fishing, shipping routes and potentially enormous oil and gas deposits.
In early April, the Philippines' naval forces intercepted eight Chinese fishing vessels in the Scarborough Shoal. They found large numbers of illegally-fished turtles, baby sharks, clams and corals on board. They tried to arrest the poachers but were stopped by the arrival of two Chinese maritime ships leading to a two-month standoff.
The David and Goliath-style situation has forced the Philippines, along with other smaller Asian countries, to work together on joint security. It has also pushed them to cement military ties with the US and Australia.
After more than two decades of double-digit increases in defence spending, China now has the largest fleet of advanced warships, submarines and long strike aircraft in Asia. The Philippines is working hard to get support from allies such as Japan and the US to help it build up its military capabilities.
But months of simmering tension between both sides over the disputed territory is threatening to exact a heavy toll on Philippines' economy and is damaging vital tourism and agricultural sectors.
Business communities in the Philippines are concerned the ongoing standoff threatens trade relations and investments after China tightened regulations on banana imports from the Philippines and several Chinese tour groups cancelled visits to the Philippines. Energy and infrastructure projects have also been put on hold.
As China flexes its economic and military muscle across the Asia Pacific region, 101 East asks if this escalation is a threat to peace and stability.
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A Dive into HistoryAlfredMerlin was digging for Roman remains in Tunisia in 1907 when sponge-divers identified mysterious remains – stone columns, just off-shore in the Mediterranean. Was this the legendary lost city of Atlantis? But when beautifully-crafted Roman works of art were salvaged from the site Merlin, came to an even more intriguing conclusion: these were the remains of a Roman shipwreck.
The Mediterranean, he knew, was the super-highway of the ancient world – water was the only efficient way to transport heavy goods quickly throughout the Empire. And when greedy traders overloaded their ships, the resulting disasters left behind a gift for archaeologists two thousand years later. Understand where the ships were going and what they were taking, and you could decode the whole of the ancient world.
And so Alfred Merlin created a whole new discipline: marine archaeology. At first it was exhausting and extremely dangerous work. Divers in the cumbersome suits with lead boots and copper helmets depended on a steady stream of air pumped from the surface. Many suffocated or died in agony from the bends. But the rewards were fabulous: individual artworks and the revelation of a trade network that saw building materials and luxuries crossing hundreds of miles of sea to construct new colonies in the image of Rome.
This film shows the pioneers at work in Merlin’s time and their successors today, faced with the same challenges of salvage and preservation, and even using some of the same methods!

A Dive into HistoryAlfredMerlin was digging for Roman remains in Tunisia in 1907 when sponge-divers identified mysterious remains – stone columns, just off-shore in the Mediterranean. Was this the legendary lost city of Atlantis? But when beautifully-crafted Roman works of art were salvaged from the site Merlin, came to an even more intriguing conclusion: these were the remains of a Roman shipwreck.
The Mediterranean, he knew, was the super-highway of the ancient world – water was the only efficient way to transport heavy goods quickly throughout the Empire. And when greedy traders overloaded their ships, the resulting disasters left behind a gift for archaeologists two thousand years later. Understand where the ships were going and what they were taking, and you could decode the whole of the ancient world.
And so Alfred Merlin created a whole new discipline: marine archaeology. At first it was exhausting and extremely dangerous work. Divers in the cumbersome suits with lead boots and copper helmets depended on a steady stream of air pumped from the surface. Many suffocated or died in agony from the bends. But the rewards were fabulous: individual artworks and the revelation of a trade network that saw building materials and luxuries crossing hundreds of miles of sea to construct new colonies in the image of Rome.
This film shows the pioneers at work in Merlin’s time and their successors today, faced with the same challenges of salvage and preservation, and even using some of the same methods!

Russia's STS Mir is one of the fastest sailing ships in the world, and has won the Tall Ships' Races five times since 1996. Trainees from around the world sail with Russian cadets from the MakarovStateMaritime Academy in St. Petersburg to gain new skills, and make new friends at sea. RT travels aboard Mir during the Tall Ships' Races 2012 as she charts a course from Lisbon, Portugual, to defeat her Polish sister ship, Dar Młodzieży. Who reach the finish line first in Cadiz, Spain?
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Russia's STS Mir is one of the fastest sailing ships in the world, and has won the Tall Ships' Races five times since 1996. Trainees from around the world sail with Russian cadets from the MakarovStateMaritime Academy in St. Petersburg to gain new skills, and make new friends at sea. RT travels aboard Mir during the Tall Ships' Races 2012 as she charts a course from Lisbon, Portugual, to defeat her Polish sister ship, Dar Młodzieży. Who reach the finish line first in Cadiz, Spain?
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Is The South China Sea On The Brink Of War?

ReefMadness: The insignificant island chain pushing the south china sea to the brink of war
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ReefMadness: The insignificant island chain pushing the south china sea to the brink of war
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The Spratly Islands are an unremarkable scattering of reefs and sandbars in the South China Sea. But, rich in resources and claimed by six countries, could they be the trigger for the world's next major conflict?
"We call our Kalayaan Island group the submerged Saudi Arabia of the Philippines." Eugenio Bito-Onon is mayor of a seemingly innocuous islet municipality, home to just 150 residents. But with the region crosshatched by important shipping lanes, the undersea bed replete with oil and gas, and the marine life furnishing vast fishing grounds, the surrounding waters are simmering with tension. China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei all lay claim to a portion of the territory, in a little-known diplomatic contest that for decades has regularly brought the area to the brink of war, and put it firmly off-limits to Western media. "China is doing a lot of things besides bullying our fishermen and small navies", explains the mayor as he points out a Chinese development on a small atoll known as 'Mischief Reef'. Here, the only way to secure the land is to occupy it. So as competing claimants continue to build, could this high-stakes game of island Monopoly erupt into a fully fledged conflict?
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ReefMadness: The insignificant island chain pushing the south china sea to the brink of war
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The Spratly Islands are an unremarkable scattering of reefs and sandbars in the South China Sea. But, rich in resources and claimed by six countries, could they be the trigger for the world's next major conflict?
"We call our Kalayaan Island group the submerged Saudi Arabia of the Philippines." Eugenio Bito-Onon is mayor of a seemingly innocuous islet municipality, home to just 150 residents. But with the region crosshatched by important shipping lanes, the undersea bed replete with oil and gas, and the marine life furnishing vast fishing grounds, the surrounding waters are simmering with tension. China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei all lay claim to a portion of the territory, in a little-known diplomatic contest that for decades has regularly brought the area to the brink of war, and put it firmly off-limits to Western media. "China is doing a lot of things besides bullying our fishermen and small navies", explains the mayor as he points out a Chinese development on a small atoll known as 'Mischief Reef'. Here, the only way to secure the land is to occupy it. So as competing claimants continue to build, could this high-stakes game of island Monopoly erupt into a fully fledged conflict?
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Sunken ShipRescue (Costa Concordia) - Biggest Maritime Rescue - WorldDocumentary Films.
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A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, which are found either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be deliberate or accidental. UNESCO estimates that worldwide over 3 million shipwrecks, some thousands of years old, lie on seabeds.[1][2]
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"Final Duty" SINKING OF BIBB & DUANE

This video is the documentary of the USCGC Bibb and Duane's final journey to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys. Both of the ships were reefed Novemb...

This video is the documentary of the USCGC Bibb and Duane's final journey to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys. Both of the ships were reefed November of 1987 off the coast of Key Largo. These ships were referred to as the "Secretary" or 327-foot class cutters and were all named after former Secretaries of the TreasuryDepartment.
The USCGC Ingham which was a sister-ship was decommissioned in Portsmouth, VA May 27th 1988, and now serves as a public museum.
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This video is the documentary of the USCGC Bibb and Duane's final journey to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys. Both of the ships were reefed November of 1987 off the coast of Key Largo. These ships were referred to as the "Secretary" or 327-foot class cutters and were all named after former Secretaries of the TreasuryDepartment.
The USCGC Ingham which was a sister-ship was decommissioned in Portsmouth, VA May 27th 1988, and now serves as a public museum.
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Alaska PollockFishing (full documentary) - DOCFILMS
The Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, formerly Theragra chalcogramma) is an aquatic fish types of the cod household Gadidae. Alaska pollock is a semipelagic education fish widely dispersed in the North Pacific with biggest concentrations found in the eastern Bering Sea.
While belonging to the very same family members as the Atlantic pollock, the Alaska pollock is not a participant of the very same Pollachius genus. Alaska pollock was long put in its very own genus Theragra, but much more current study has revealed it is instead carefully related to the Atlantic cod and ought to be returned to category Gadus in which it was originally described. Furthermore, Norwegian pollock (Theragra finnmarchica), an unusual fish of Norwegian waters, is most likely the very same varieties as the Alaska pollock
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Alaska PollockFishing (full documentary) - DOCFILMS
The Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, formerly Theragra chalcogramma) is an aquatic fish types of the cod household Gadidae. Alaska pollock is a semipelagic education fish widely dispersed in the North Pacific with biggest concentrations found in the eastern Bering Sea.
While belonging to the very same family members as the Atlantic pollock, the Alaska pollock is not a participant of the very same Pollachius genus. Alaska pollock was long put in its very own genus Theragra, but much more current study has revealed it is instead carefully related to the Atlantic cod and ought to be returned to category Gadus in which it was originally described. Furthermore, Norwegian pollock (Theragra finnmarchica), an unusual fish of Norwegian waters, is most likely the very same varieties as the Alaska pollock
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Videographic: What does China want? | The Economist

An animated infographic depicting China’s territorial disputes. Is China trying to expand its territory?
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ONE reason China’s spectacular rise sometimes alarms its neighbours is that it is not a status quo power. From its inland, western borders to its eastern and southern seaboard, it claims territory it does not control.
In the west, China’s border dispute with India is more than a minor cartographic tiff. China claims an area of India that is three times the size of Switzerland, the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Further west, China occupies Indian claimed territory next to Ladakh in Kashmir, an area called the Aksai Chin. China humiliated India in a brief, bloody war over the dispute in 1962. Since 1988, the two countries have put the dispute on the backburner and got on with developing commercial ties, despite occasional flare-ups.
More immediately dangerous is the stand-off between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu in Chinese.
Japan says they have always been its territory and admits no dispute, claiming also that China only started expressing an interest when it began to seem the area might be rich in oil and gas.
A new and much more dangerous phase of the dispute began in 2012 after Japan’s government nationalised three of the islands by buying them from their private owner.
China accused Japan of breaking an understanding not to change the islands’ status. Ever since, it has been challenging not just Japan’s claim to sovereignty over the islands, but its claim to control them, sending Chinese ships and planes to patrol them.
Raising the stakes is Japan’s alliance with America, which says that though it takes no position on who owns the islands, they are covered by its defence treaty with Japan, since it administers them.
Especially provocative to America and Japan was China’s unilateral announcement in November 2013 of an Air-defenceIdentificationZone, covering the islands.
The worry is less that big powers will deliberately go to war over these desolate little rocks, but that an accidental collision at sea or in the air might escalate unforeseeably.
Similar fears cloud disputes in the South China Sea, where the maritime claims in South-East Asia are even more complex, and, again, competition is made more intense by speculation about vast potential wealth in hydrocarbon resources.
Vietnam was incensed in May 2014 when China moved a massive oil-rig to drill for two months in what it claimed as its waters.
This was near the Paracel Islands, controlled by China since it evicted the former South Vietnamese from them in 1974.
To the south, China and Vietnam also claim the Spratly archipelago, as does Taiwan, whose claim in the sea mirrors China’s. But the Philippines also has a substantial claim. Malaysia and even tiny Brunei also have an interest.
But it is with Vietnam and the Philippines that China’s disputes are most active. The Philippines accuses China of salami-slicing tactics, stealthily expanding its presence in disputed waters. In 1995 it evicted the Philippines from Mischief Reef, and in 2012 from Scarborough Shoal.
This year it has tried to stop the Philippines from resupplying a small garrison it maintains on the Second Thomas Shoal, and appears to be building an airstrip on the Johnson South Reef.
The United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea—UNCLOS—is one forum for tackling these disputes. But UNCLOS cannot rule over territorial disputes, just over the waters habitable islands are entitled to.
And China and Taiwanpoint to a map published in the 1940s, showing a big U-shaped nine-dashed line around the edge of the sea. That, they say, is historically all China’s. This has no basis in international law, and the Philippines, to China’s fury, is challenging it at an UNCLOS tribunal.
In fact China often fails to clarify whether its claims are based on the nine-dashed line, or on claims to islands, rocks and shoals.
That lack of clarity alarms not just its neighbours and rival claimants, but the United States, which says it has its own national interest in the freedom of navigation in a sea through which a huge chunk of global trade passes
Also alarming is that if these arguments over tiny specks in the sea become so unmanageable, what hope is there for resolving the really big issues? And the biggest of all is the status of Taiwan, still seen by China as part of its territory, but in practice independent since 1949.
For now, Taiwan and China have a thriving commercial relationship. But polls suggest that few in Taiwan hanker after unification with the mainland. And China’s rulers still insist that one day they will have to accept just that.

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The Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait Vessel Traffic Service

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Tombs In The Coral

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

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Video: Ship stuck on reef, leaks oil near New Zealand

A large container ship stuck on a reef off the coast of New Zealand is leaking oil. Mariti...

Video: Ship stuck on reef, leaks oil near New Zealand

A large container ship stuck on a reef off the coast of New Zealand is leaking oil. Maritime New Zealand said on Thursday the leak appeared to be intermittent and coming from damaged pipes rather than from fuel tanks. It added the extent of the spillage was hard to assess given the extensive damage to the vessel. The 775-foot (236-metre) Liberia-flagged Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef, about 12 nautical miles from Tauranga Harbour, early on Wednesday. It has been floundering there since. Maritime New Zealand said the 25 crew on board of the Rena were safe and trying to stop more oil from leaking. The agency added that so far, four seabirds had died in the oil slick, which extends about three miles (five kilometres) from the ship.
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Corals Climax despite doomsday messages reef is dead

Corals climax despite doomsday messages the reefs dead
Love makes the world go round, it also makes wildlife go absolute crazy, people included. It’s a basic seeded instinct. It’s why we’re here. The result is ingenious ways that animals have increased their chances of reproducing or what we like to call doing the ‘no pants dance’. Enter the humble reef building coral, the glamazon of tropical reefs all around the world.
We know these animals can build the largest living structure, which can be seen from space… the Great Barrier Reef. It’s an impressive feat for an animal no bigger than a thumbnail. But when it comes to love, what the corals can’t do is move. They’re stuck to the spot, which doesn’t seem to leave many possibilities for finding a mate on a Saturday night.
What’s their solution? Corals cleverly co-ordinate the release of their packages of ‘sex cells’ at the same time. Scientists at James Cook University first discovered this natural phenomenon in the early 1980’s. It happens only on one night of the year for each species, so precision timing is everything. The moon becomes their sexual timepiece, providing the cue for the mass release of eggs and sperm into the water column.
The result? 2-7 days after the full moon corals release their eggs and sperm into the water, in what scientists have dubbed ‘the world’s largest synchronized climax’. It’s safe group sex at a distance without the nasty complications and STD’s.
This increases the chance of fertilization. Releasing their eggs and sperm at night also makes it more difficult for predators to see, and what predators can see them are simply overwhelmed and unable to devour such a mass of food, allowing most of the sex cells to survive.
We were lucky enough to witness this maritime orgy at MooreReef, off the southern coast of Cairns in the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef a couple of weeks ago. It was a magical sight as billions of coral polyps broadcasted their eggs and sperm into the water, rising to the surface like a silent sexual symphony.
It begs the question… if you’ve got billions of different species of eggs and sperm swimming around at the same time, how do they know who is who and who they should do? Scientists have discovered that the eggs contain a chemical substance or ‘sperm attractant’ that is irresistible to the sperm of the same species, while a pseudo chastity belt or membrane keeps other eager sperm at bay.
What happens next? The sperm penetrates the egg and within a few hours it develops into a swimming larva where it rides the currents. If it’s not eaten by the plankton feeders, jellyfish and other filter-feeders it will settles on a hard surface and metamorphosise into a single coral polyp to begin a new coral colony.
Unfortunately no spawning events were recorded in far northern sections, which have been heavily hit by bleaching. But there is hope and we saw it first hand. Hopefully this spawning event that we witnessed can help recolonized the northern counterparts and help with the reef recovery efforts.
So people of the world…we proudly proclaim that romance on the reef isn’t dead and our love affair with it shouldn’t be either. So get it on the action and ‘sea for yourself’. Admittedly you may have to wait another year, but trust us; it’s a climax worth waiting for.
Credit: Big thanks to the Biopixel Crew for the trip out to the reef and for scaring the living daylights out of our resident mermaid (she is still in a padded room rocking back and forth..) and Sunlover for letting us use their pontoon. Footage: Oceans IQ

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USTS Texas Clipper: Creation of an Artificial Reef 17 November 2007

The "Texas Clipper" was a training ship for the Texas Maritime Academy located at Texas A ...

Great Barrier Reef International Marine College

Located in Cairns, the Great Barrier ReefInternational MarineCollege offers world-class maritime facilities and training on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef. To find out more, call +61 7 4041 9813, email: marine.north@tafe.qld.edu.au or visit: www.gbrimc.com.au

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White Porcelain Crab @ Maritime Reef

One of our White Porcelain Crabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome!...

White Porcelain Crab @ Maritime Reef

One of our WhitePorcelainCrabs filtering away while hanging out in a bubble-tip anenome! Probably the most interesting thing about these crabs is their maxillipeds (The Fan-like appendage), which they use to filter foods right out of the water column!

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Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef

The Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef is the first shellfish restoration reef of its kind in ...

Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef

The Yorke Peninsula Shellfish Reef is the first shellfish restoration reef of its kind in South Australia and will contribute to a healthier marine environment and improved recreational fishing opportunities. The four-hectare site was constructed by Maritime Constructions, using 60 custom made concrete structures and more than 800 tonnes of limestone. The reef will open to recreational fishers in late August.

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Black Ice Snowflake Clownfish Visiting Maritime Reef!

In preparation for a move into a new aquarium setup, I've brought my Black Ice Snowflake C...

Black Ice Snowflake Clownfish Visiting Maritime Reef!

In preparation for a move into a new aquarium setup, I've brought my Black IceSnowflakeClowns into MaritimeReef to hang out for a few weeks while I get everything ready to go in the new tank setup. Eventually, we do intend to breed this pair, but not until we have our clownfish breeding program up and running and stable. Our goal is to make these outstanding clownfish more accesible to other salt water tank fans.

That greasy lotion we slather onto ourselves at the beach protects us from the sun, but it can harm coral reefs. Sunscreen containing chemicals that can cause an often-fatal coral condition called bleaching should be banned, according to a petition filed Wednesday by a U.S. environmental group.... ....

Tombs In The Coral

The Cropp family explores sunken ships lost on the reefs of Australia during its long maritime history. The Great Barrier Reef is littered with cannon, anchors and chain that mark the graves of these old ships.
The islands and coastline provided a shortlived safe haven for the castaways before they met their fate at the hand of the native headhunters. Diving for treasure - portholes and sunken ships in precarious places - in the surf on the reef and in treacherous currents, and bringing them back to the Shipwreck Museum in Port Douglas.

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Cuba Wild Island of the Caribbean - The Secrets of Nature

Cuba is a tropical paradise. It is the largest and yet least known island in the Caribbean...

Cuba Wild Island of the Caribbean - The Secrets of Nature

Cuba is a tropical paradise. It is the largest and yet least known island in the Caribbean. In recent years it has become famous for its old American cars, Fidel Castro's brand of communism, cigars and rum. Millions of tourists visit each year to enjoy the tropical climate and the wonderful beaches and warm seas.But there is another Cuba, the little known wildlife of this Caribbean island. Over half the plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth. Over 80% of the reptiles and amphibians are uniquely Cuban. They include the smallest four-legged animal on earth and the world's most aggressive crocodile. This programme looks at these little known creatures and investigates how they arrived on Cuba and when?The Story starts in the Caribbean Sea. Cuba has many unspoilt reefs that team with colourful fish. This is due in part to the recent communist regime, for there has been strict control over boats and very limited fishing.. So the reefs have remained pristine, a glimpse of how the rest of the Caribbean looked before development degraded so much.

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Standoff at Scarborough Shoal | 101 East

The South China Sea is a strategically important and resource-rich area in Asia. Around ha...

Standoff at Scarborough Shoal | 101 East

The South China Sea is a strategically important and resource-rich area in Asia. Around half of the world's merchant fleets pass through every year carrying an estimated $5 trillion worth of trade. The area is also believed to contain valuable oil and gas deposits.
And ownership is hotly contested. There are ongoing territorial disputes between Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and China. One of the most well-known is the Spratly Islands' hydrocarbon deposits valued at $26.3 trillion.
The latest tension is at the Scarborough Shoal, a small cluster of uninhabitable islands which lies about 220km off the coast of the Philippines and falls under its exclusive economic zone according to international maritime law. But China also claims ownership despite its nearest coastline being 900km away. The Scarborough Shoal has valuable resources including fishing, shipping routes and potentially enormous oil and gas deposits.
In early April, the Philippines' naval forces intercepted eight Chinese fishing vessels in the Scarborough Shoal. They found large numbers of illegally-fished turtles, baby sharks, clams and corals on board. They tried to arrest the poachers but were stopped by the arrival of two Chinese maritime ships leading to a two-month standoff.
The David and Goliath-style situation has forced the Philippines, along with other smaller Asian countries, to work together on joint security. It has also pushed them to cement military ties with the US and Australia.
After more than two decades of double-digit increases in defence spending, China now has the largest fleet of advanced warships, submarines and long strike aircraft in Asia. The Philippines is working hard to get support from allies such as Japan and the US to help it build up its military capabilities.
But months of simmering tension between both sides over the disputed territory is threatening to exact a heavy toll on Philippines' economy and is damaging vital tourism and agricultural sectors.
Business communities in the Philippines are concerned the ongoing standoff threatens trade relations and investments after China tightened regulations on banana imports from the Philippines and several Chinese tour groups cancelled visits to the Philippines. Energy and infrastructure projects have also been put on hold.
As China flexes its economic and military muscle across the Asia Pacific region, 101 East asks if this escalation is a threat to peace and stability.
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Ancient Chinese Explorers[History Documentary]HD

In 1999, New York Times journalist Nicholas D. Kristof reported a surprising encounter on ...

Secrets in the Dust - A Dive into History

A Dive into HistoryAlfredMerlin was digging for Roman remains in Tunisia in 1907 when sponge-divers identified mysterious remains – stone columns, just off-shore in the Mediterranean. Was this the legendary lost city of Atlantis? But when beautifully-crafted Roman works of art were salvaged from the site Merlin, came to an even more intriguing conclusion: these were the remains of a Roman shipwreck.
The Mediterranean, he knew, was the super-highway of the ancient world – water was the only efficient way to transport heavy goods quickly throughout the Empire. And when greedy traders overloaded their ships, the resulting disasters left behind a gift for archaeologists two thousand years later. Understand where the ships were going and what they were taking, and you could decode the whole of the ancient world.
And so Alfred Merlin created a whole new discipline: marine archaeology. At first it was exhausting and extremely dangerous work. Divers in the cumbersome suits with lead boots and copper helmets depended on a steady stream of air pumped from the surface. Many suffocated or died in agony from the bends. But the rewards were fabulous: individual artworks and the revelation of a trade network that saw building materials and luxuries crossing hundreds of miles of sea to construct new colonies in the image of Rome.
This film shows the pioneers at work in Merlin’s time and their successors today, faced with the same challenges of salvage and preservation, and even using some of the same methods!

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Full Speed Ahead! Sailing to Victory (RT Documentary)

Russia's STS Mir is one of the fastest sailing ships in the world, and has won the Tall Sh...

Full Speed Ahead! Sailing to Victory (RT Documentary)

Russia's STS Mir is one of the fastest sailing ships in the world, and has won the Tall Ships' Races five times since 1996. Trainees from around the world sail with Russian cadets from the MakarovStateMaritime Academy in St. Petersburg to gain new skills, and make new friends at sea. RT travels aboard Mir during the Tall Ships' Races 2012 as she charts a course from Lisbon, Portugual, to defeat her Polish sister ship, Dar Młodzieży. Who reach the finish line first in Cadiz, Spain?
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Is The South China Sea On The Brink Of War?

Reef Madness: The insignificant island chain pushing the south china sea to the brink of w...

Is The South China Sea On The Brink Of War?

ReefMadness: The insignificant island chain pushing the south china sea to the brink of war
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The Spratly Islands are an unremarkable scattering of reefs and sandbars in the South China Sea. But, rich in resources and claimed by six countries, could they be the trigger for the world's next major conflict?
"We call our Kalayaan Island group the submerged Saudi Arabia of the Philippines." Eugenio Bito-Onon is mayor of a seemingly innocuous islet municipality, home to just 150 residents. But with the region crosshatched by important shipping lanes, the undersea bed replete with oil and gas, and the marine life furnishing vast fishing grounds, the surrounding waters are simmering with tension. China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei all lay claim to a portion of the territory, in a little-known diplomatic contest that for decades has regularly brought the area to the brink of war, and put it firmly off-limits to Western media. "China is doing a lot of things besides bullying our fishermen and small navies", explains the mayor as he points out a Chinese development on a small atoll known as 'Mischief Reef'. Here, the only way to secure the land is to occupy it. So as competing claimants continue to build, could this high-stakes game of island Monopoly erupt into a fully fledged conflict?
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Troubled Waters? The South China Sea in Focus

If you build it, do you own it? Tensions over territorial and maritime disputes in the Sou...

Sunken ShipRescue (Costa Concordia) - Biggest Maritime Rescue - WorldDocumentary Films.
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill (Full Documentary)

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, wh...

"Final Duty" SINKING OF BIBB & DUANE

This video is the documentary of the USCGC Bibb and Duane's final journey to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys. Both of the ships were reefed November of 1987 off the coast of Key Largo. These ships were referred to as the "Secretary" or 327-foot class cutters and were all named after former Secretaries of the TreasuryDepartment.
The USCGC Ingham which was a sister-ship was decommissioned in Portsmouth, VA May 27th 1988, and now serves as a public museum.
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That greasy lotion we slather onto ourselves at the beach protects us from the sun, but it can harm coral reefs. Sunscreen containing chemicals that can cause an often-fatal coral condition called bleaching should be banned, according to a petition filed Wednesday by a U.S. environmental group.... ....

MaritimeGloucester will open its 2018 season on Saturday and the the HarborLoopmaritime education center and museum will greet the new year with a new executive director in the fold ...Geoffrey Richon, chairman of Maritime Gloucester's board of directors, said DeKoster clearly elevated himself above the approximately 50 or so candidates who applied for the position....

QUINCY — The old Houghs NeckMaritimeCenter likely will come down this summer to make way for the larger boat ramp that will be the first part of a new complex, said Ward 1 councilor David McCarthy.McCarthy, who represents the area and is one of the primary city officials working on the new center, said this is the first of three stages for ......

NORWALK — Days before his departure, MaritimeAquariumPresidentBrian Davis received a standing round of applause from NorwalkCommon Council members and their unanimous approval of an agreement designed to help the aquarium survive the replacement of the WalkBridge. Davis learned of the state’s plan to replace the rail bridge, which bisects the aquarium, upon taking the helm of the aquarium in late 2014 ... ....